Addenda to the Apple post

Please read ETAs below. Thanks!

For those not willing to telephone - and I recommend telephoning before emailing - pocketnaomi relays:

[Go] to apple.com/feedback, and put in a complaint at the bottom where there's a section for "software". Don't click on "store request," click on "itunes..." "Feedback about..." is a pulldown menu; click 'other', and then put in the comment.

The person pocketnaomi talked to said doing both will help - consider it the bonus round.

Useful phone fodder: if you use the Apple store search function with the word "peekaboo," you get a bunch of children's games - and this. That's gonna go over well with parents.

Section 19.1 (Religion, culture, and ethnicity) says Apps containing references or commentary about a religious, cultural or ethnic group that are defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited or likely to expose the targeted group to harm or violence will be rejected.

Also, Apple has a Diversity Policy, which includes the statement As an Apple employee you are expected to be respectful of the diverse backgrounds of all employees, temporary agency workers, independent contractors, customers, clients and vendors. Approving this this for sale app doesn't seem to be in line with this policy.

eta2: Can you still see the application in iTunes? We could as of this morning but are getting reports that it's being withdrawn from store servers, and I don't see it anymore myself; see comments for first report. It seems to have started disappearing sometime after 8:30am Pacific time, North America. Is it still findable for you?

And if it is gone, what should happen now? I'd personally hope that whoever approved this gets a good talking to. I don't want them fired or anything; I'd just like somebody to go, "what the hell you thinkin'?" at whoever it was.